remove duplicate trickplay folders script#!/bin/bash RED='\033[0;31m' CYAN='\033[0;36m' RESET='\033

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#!/bin/bash
RED='\033[0;31m'
CYAN='\033[0;36m'
RESET='\033[0m'
# The script runs and trickplay folders that don't match the name of the movie are removed.
# in the sample below, the first trickplay folder would be removed since the movie has [pass1][transcoded] in the name
# find trickplay folders and write to txt file
# this is what the find output looks like for trickplay folders
# ./movies/Example movie 1 [1252]/Example movie 1 [1252][DV HDR10].trickplay
# ./movies/Example movie 1 [1252]/Example movie 1 [1252][DV HDR10][pass1][transcoded].trickplay
find -name *.trickplay > trickplay.txt
# find mkv and mp4 files and write to txt file
# this is what the find output looks like for a movie file
# ./movies/Example movie 1 [1252]/Example movie 1 [1252][DV HDR10][pass1][transcoded].mkv
find -name *.mkv -o -name *.mp4 > movies.txt
# read the movies.txt file line by line
while read movie
do
# write only the basename without the extension to the log.txt for comparison later
# Example movie 1 [1252][DV HDR10][pass1][transcoded]
base=$(basename -s .mkv $(basename -s .mp4 "$movie"))
echo $base >> log.txt
done < movies.txt
# read the trickplay.txt file line by line
while read trickplay
do
# Compare only the basename without the extension to log.txt from before
# Example movie 1 [1252][DV HDR10]
# Example movie 1 [1252][DV HDR10][pass1][transcoded]
base=$(basename -s .trickplay "$trickplay")
# if the trickplay basename matches exactly in log.txt, keep it else remove it
if ( cat log.txt | grep -qFx "$base"); then
echo $base >> keep.txt
else
echo $base >> remove.txt
# rm trickplay folders not matching
rm "$trickplay" -r
fi
done < trickplay.txt
echo -e "${CYAN}List of mp4 and mkv files\n\n${RESET}"
cat log.txt
echo -e "\n\n${CYAN}List of trickplay to keep\n\n${RESET}"
cat keep.txt
if [ -f remove.txt ]; then
echo -e "\n\n${RED}List of trickplay folders removed${RESET}"
cat remove.txt
fi
rm *.txt

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